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DC Events | July 26 - July 30
Monday, July 26
| Time | Subject | Title | Host | Panelist(s) | RSVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | Palestinian Territories | Human Rights and Settlements in the Occupied Territories: An Updated Scorecard | New America | Jessica Montell | RSVP |
| 2:00 PM | Diplomacy, UN | Rediscovering Preventive Diplomacy for Peace in the World’s Hotspots: A View from the United Nations | Brookings | Lynn Pascoe, David R. Smock, Paul B. Stares | RSVP |
| 2:00 PM | START Agreement | Verifying the New START Agreement | USIP | Rose Gottemoeller, Amy F. Woolf, Greg Thielmann | RSVP |
| 2:00 PM | Public Housing | Housing Choice and Tenant Mobility | Urban Institute | Mary Cunningham, Mary-Anne Morrison, Margery Austin Turner, Douglas Rice | RSVP |
| 3:00 PM | Intelligence | Intelligence Management and Oversight: How Are We Doing? | Potomac Institute | Mike Rogers | RSVP |
| 8:00 PM | Prison System | Dying Inside: Elderly in Prison (Documentary) | Busboys | RSVP |
Tuesday, July 27
| Time | Subject | Title | Host | Panelist(s) | RSVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Congress, Public Opinion | Bridging the Gap: Reconnecting America and Congress II | National Journal | Jason Dick | RSVP |
| 8:30 AM | Early Education | Funders Forum on Early Education and Birth to Third Grade | Pew | Ralph Smith, Jason Sabo, Libby Doggett, Ralph Smith, Elizabeth Burke Bryant and more | |
| 9:30 AM | Export Growth | Export Nation: U.S. Metros and National Export Growth | Brookings | Bryan Ashley, Fred P. Hochberg, J. Bradford Jensen, Sean Randolph, Chuck Reed, Francisco Sánchez | RSVP |
| 9:30 AM | UN MDG | Achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals: Progress through Partnerships | House International Relations Committee | Kathy Calvin, John McArthur, Scott C. Ratzan | |
| 10:00 AM | Afghanistan | Considering Afghanistan's Reconciliation Options | Senate Foreign Relations Committee | Ryan C. Crocker, Shuja Nawaz, Zainab Salbi | |
| 10:00 AM | India, Latin America | India: Latin America's Next Big Thing? | Wilson Center | Luis A. Moreno, Meera Shankar, Jack Garrity, Mauricio Mesquita Moreira, Arvind Virmani and more | RSVP |
| 10:00 AM | Public Housing | Financing Public Housing Preservation | Urban Institute | Stephen I. Holmquist, Jill Khadduri, Matt Schwartz, Mary Cunningham | RSVP |
| 12:00 PM | Greenhouse Gases | GHG Reporting Rule So Far: Lessons Learned and Changes to Consider | ESI | Brian C. Freeman, Brett A. Sago | RSVP |
| 12:00 PM | Iraq, US Military | Culture as a Tool of War: US Military Approaches to Occupation in Iraq | MEI | Rochelle Davis | RSVP |
| 2:00 PM | Climate Change, Finance | Climate Change Finance: Providing Assistance for Vulnerable Countries | House International Relations Committee | Lael Brainard, Elliot Diringer, Jonathan Pershing, David W. Titley, Kenneth Berlin, Redmond Clark | |
| 5:30 PM | Agriculture, Urbanism | Agrarian Urbanism: Agriculture and the 21st Century Metropolis | New America | Andrés Duany | RSVP |
| 7:00 PM | The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World | Politics and Prose | David Kirkpatrick |
Wednesday, July 28
| Time | Subject | Title | Host | Panelist(s) | RSVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Innovation, Security | Science, Technology, and Innovation: Imperatives for National and Economic Security | CSIS | John Hamre, Steven E. Koonin, Katharine Ku, James Short, Charles Freeman and more | RSVP |
| 8:00 AM | Education | Inside the Issue: Education | National Journal | RSVP | |
| 12:00 PM | Unions | Union Influence on Public Policy | Cato | John Fund, Armand Thieblot, John Samples | RSVP |
| 12:00 PM | Climate Change | Climate Change: An Introduction | ESI | Patrick Traylor, David Doniger | RSVP |
| 12:00 PM | Counterterrorism | Keeping America Free, Safe And Prosperous: Counterterrorism in the Obama Administration | Heritage | Peter King | RSVP |
| 12:00 PM | Asia-Pacific | Asia/Pacific Workgroup's Planning Meeting | SID | RSVP | |
| 12:30 PM | Global Health, Innovation | Innovation to Catalyze Development | GHC | Maura O’Neill, Thomas Kalil, Corey Casper | RSVP |
| 12:30 PM | Middle East, Peace Process | The Middle East Peace Process: A Live Web Chat with Martin Indyk (Online Only) | Brookings | Martin Indyk | RSVP |
| 5:00 PM | D.C. Media | Digital District: Local News and Online Media Access in Washington | New America | Dan Silverman, Veronica O. Davis, Ariel Valdez, Justin Jouvenal | RSVP |
| 6:30 PM | Sports | Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love | Busboys | Dave Zirin | |
| 6:30 PM | Israel-Palestine | Voices of Palestine: Lesh Sabreen?/Degrees of Incarceration (Film) | Georgetown | Muayad Alayan |
Thursday, July 29
| Time | Subject | Title | Host | Panelist(s) | RSVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Int'l Law, Professional Development | Women in International Law Networking Breakfast | ASIL | RSVP | |
| 8:00 AM | India-Pakistan | India-Pakistan Relations: Breaking the Deadlock over Kashmir (Day 1) | Kashmiri-American Council | Kuldip Nayar, Kuldip Nayar, Mohammad Afzal Sindhu, Ahsan Iqbal, Kamal Chenoy and more | |
| 8:30 AM | Africa, Trade | African Growth and Opportunity Act Civil Society Forum 2010 “A Decade of Progress in Bridging the U.S.-Africa Trade Gap” (DAY 1) | Wilson Center | Gregory Simpkins, Baba Dioum, Gregory Gajewski, Emira Woods, M. Ayoma Matunga and more | RSVP |
| 9:30 AM | China, Climate Action | Paving the Way for US-China Sub-National Cooperation on Climate Action Planning | Wilson Center | Jin Jiamen, Anne Devero | RSVP |
| 10:00 AM | Terrorism | Capitol Hill Seminar: Foreign Affinity Terrorism | Potomac Institute | Dutch Ruppersberger, Robert Turner, Bruce Zagaris, Mark Krikorian | RSVP |
| 11:00 AM | Counterterrorism | Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren't Stopping Tomorrow's Terrorism | Heritage | Stewart A. Baker | RSVP |
| 11:30 AM | Mongolia | Mongolia: Challenges Facing Women and Children | Asia Society | Bolormaa Khajidsuren | RSVP |
| 12:00 PM | Counterterrorism | Strategic Counterterrorism: The Signals We Send | Cato | Jim Harper, Joshua A. Geltzer | RSVP |
| 12:00 PM | Saudi Arabia, Women | Photography Through the Eyes of Saudi Arabian Women | MEI | Rania A. Razek | RSVP |
| 3:00 PM | Maternal Health, Development | The Impact of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity on Economic Development | Wilson Center | Mayra Buvinic, Nomonde Xundu, Mary Ellen Stanton | RSVP |
| 4:30 PM | Global Health | Washington to Washington: A Shared Vision for Global Health | CSIS | Christine Gregoire, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dana Hyde, Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada, Rajeev Venkayya and more | RSVP |
| 6:00 PM | HIV, Transgender | Translatina (Documentary) | GHC | RSVP | |
| 6:00 PM | Advancement of Women | Vital Voices Global Partnership | Asia Society | Alyse Nelson | RSVP |
| 7:00 PM | Washington Post | Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life | Politics and Prose | Dave Kindred |
Friday, July 30
| Time | Subject | Title | Host | Panelist(s) | RSVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Africa, Trade | African Growth and Opportunity Act Civil Society Forum 2010 “A Decade of Progress in Bridging the U.S.-Africa Trade Gap” (DAY 2) | Wilson Center | Steve Lande, Jas Bedi, M. Monyane, Navdeep Sodhia | RSVP |
| 9:00 AM | India-Pakistan | India-Pakistan Relations: Breaking the Deadlock over Kashmir (Day 2) | Kashmiri-American Council | Kuldip Nayar, Kuldip Nayar, Mohammad Afzal Sindhu, Ahsan Iqbal, Kamal Chenoy and more | |
| 12:00 PM | Democracy | The Conspicuously Absent Fourth "D:" Democracy | SID | Lorne Craner, Sarah Mendelson, Kenneth Wollack | RSVP |
| 7:00 PM | Lyndon B. Johnson | Lyndon B. Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 36th President | Politics and Prose | Charles Peters, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sean Wilentz |
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